From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-27 06:39:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:27:02 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9mdhr7$qdo$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> <3B7F624B.7294D24F@acm.org> <9lr6je$5hj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ltoi7$4is$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B82789B.8D195045@home.com> <9ltuo8$70n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B829450.879B0396@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998918823 27064 136.170.200.133 (27 Aug 2001 13:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Aug 2001 13:27:03 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12461 Date: 2001-08-27T13:27:03+00:00 List-Id: One thing the world does *not* need is another Unix variant. If the objective were to reproduce Linux only in Ada, what's the point? Why make something that has an identical look and feel all the way to its core and then just be another "me too!" player? Its already been done and redone - go do something different! When Chrysler took a look at the big pickup truck market back about '95, they realized they had less than one percent of it. They were not a serious player in the market since Ford and Chevy pretty much dominated. That was the bad news. The good news was that no matter what they did, they could hardly screw things up worse than they already were. So they decided to get really radical in their thinking. The result? The Dodge Ram Pickup that has become a really major success story. So much so that Ford ran off trying to copy elements of their design, etc., because they lost a really significant market share to Dodge. (Yes, I happen to own one - ten cylinders & four wheel drive too! :-) This led Chrysler to other areas of more radical design thinking - the PT Cruiser being a good example. It worked because while everyone else was offering variations on a theme, they had something genuinely *different* that maybe wasn't going to appeal to *everybody* but certainly was going to find a large segment of the population that was tired of all the bland sameness on the market. In a way, Ada is in an identical position. It has such a small share of the market that it can't hardly kill itself by getting daring and bold. Offering something unique and different and bold would be a strategy that - while it may not kill C/C++, et alia - would certainly have a way of snagging a big chunk of the market for itself. I'd think that ought to be the strategy for any big Ada project being done at least in part for purposes of Ada advocacy. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Larry Kilgallen" wrote in message news:QzMRgPYPkyBy@eisner.encompasserve.org... > > For me, an OS that resembled either Windows or Unix would not be of > interest. The only thing that would interest me in an experimental > operating system is if it had significant new capablities. > > Thus Linux wasn't it. I never saw BeOS or NexT -- perhaps they were it. >